Netflix’s New No. 1 Movie May Be the Future June 04, 2024
Over the long weekend, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos got a bit of a roasting for telling the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro that Barbie and Oppenheimer, whose combined global box office was $2.4 billion, “would have enjoyed just as big an audience...
Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo? April 11, 2024
In February, Jennifer Lopez released a bundle of multimedia projects that were each part of a larger statement—arguably, a misguided one—about the power of love or something. One of those was This Is Me … Now, a very cheesy and otherwise unremarkable...
Never-Ending Love Story February 26, 2024
In 2021, when Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got back together after nearly 20 years, with four divorces between them (three of them hers, one his) and one A-Rod, it felt like a romantic destiny fulfilled; like something amiss in the universe had bee...
What Jennifer Lopez Has to Say About Bennifer February 19, 2024
I have to believe that somewhere in the multiverse, where a dancer of the supa-fly variety can climb to household-name status purely off the strength of her moves, there is an alternate Jennifer Lopez enjoying an equal measure of fame without ever ha...
Jennifer Lopez’s $20 Million Gamble February 14, 2024
A few months after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were married in 2022, Lopez got a call from Jane Fonda. The two had been friends since 2005’s “Monster-in-Law,” and it was Fonda who had introduced J. Lo when she received her star on the Hollywood Wa...
Triviality's Assault on Liberty August 26, 2022
Celebrity culture draws us away from the things we most need to attend to, and toward the shallow, insincere, and insubstantial....